Flex Your Spirit Of Adventure

Push Your Next Trip Through The Stratosphere With This Adventure Inspiration

Instagram can be used for good or evil. You can either make yourself float in a puddle of your own drool by looking at pictures of desserts or use the accounts at hand to inspire you.

If you’re down for the latter, it’s time to switch up your routine by checking out some of the most adventurous Instagram accounts in the world, as well as some tips on being a traveler as you find your fit in the world. These are guaranteed to be the most adventurous young people on Instagram — dudes who’ll make you want to throw down your phone, pick up your backpack, pick your phone back up, and get the hell out of your living room.

Travel America By Storm and Document The Journey

Cole Rise is an artist, which makes itself strikingly clear through the sheer beauty of his travel photography. Lonesome mountains that you’d normally see on a postcard or a television show soon feel closer than you ever could have imagined before. What makes his photography especially interesting is his knack for capturing down and dirty Americana — as demonstrated with this wildly desolate shot of an old Midwestern homestead. So grab your camera, or your phone, and head out your door because there’s beauty in this country everywhere you look.

Explore The Desert With Your Buds

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A self-proclaimed “old school gentleman explorer” has been everywhere they've wanted to go and experienced places others have never even considered exploring. If you ever have the chance, take desolate shots of the African desert to inspire those itching with the adventure bug to forego the typical spots and try something far more exotic. If you’ve ever wanted to get lost — and we mean really get lost — do like an experienced explorer does and go for the gold. Just make sure you don’t track sand back into your bed.

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Explore The Great White North (While Tactfully Avoiding Bears)

Canadian explorer Johan Lolos has been on a ten-week road trip in British Columbia, Alberta and Quebec, and has been sharing the highlights of his journey with the world through Instagram. We sincerely hope you’re not afraid of wild animals, as an encounter with a huge black bear in Tweedsmuir Provincial Park is one of the first pictures that jumps out at you in the stack. Visit our neighbors to the North and see for yourself the beauty and grandness of the Canadian wilderness that Lolos has captured on camera.

Find Out What’s Behind Closed Doors

If you’re not an outdoors buff — don’t worry, they exist — you can still capture some of the finest castles, buildings, and mansions from around the globe. France, the Himalayas, Mexico — with experience you can master the art of seeking out a country’s most ornate and elaborate structures, and while you may not be able to visit all of those places as a young man just out of school, you can walk around almost any American city and find buildings and structures that are just as eye-pleasing all around you.

Bike The Pan American Highway

Pedal South changes things up with the way they do things: “two filmmakers, a writer, and a photographer cycling from Alaska to Argentina.” It’s all right there in the bio. As the four storytellers bike the length of the Pan American Highway, they post everything they encounter along the way, giving us a small and fascinating window into the life of a world we’ve never seen before.

Chill In The Wilderness Where No One Can Find You

With the right shots, travel photography can inspire a crop of people out there who realize a huge part of traveling involves relaxing. So, when they see pictures of a skateboard in motion or a wood burning hot tub in the middle of the forest, they know that not every adventurer is doomed to chill in desolate forests.

See The World When The Sun Goes Down

Andy Best calls himself a “director nomad,” which anyone could quickly agree to after peeping some of his breathtaking night shots of the sky. It’s hard not to let your jaw drop through the floor from the particularly stunning pictures of the Grand Canyon or Olympic National Park in the Moab. Don’t just explore your environment when the sun is shining, because there’s beauty to discovering your surroundings when the moon is out too.

Get Lost In The Greenery

It’s hard to believe there’s this much greenery in the world, but that’s probably what nature photographers want people to think with the amount of spots pictured in their incredible photography. The sheer variety of locations means the opportunities are virtually endless — the Pacific Northwest, the Arctic Circle, the Swiss Alps. How could anyone justify staying indoors after looking at photos like these?

Fuel Your Adventures In New Ways

Matt Long is a travel blogger, writer and photographer who specializes in experiential luxury travel — keyword: luxury. That doesn’t mean his stops aren’t out of reach for the average person; he’s eaten his way through Chengdu, China, chilled out with the Maasai people in Tanzania, and sipped some of the finest coffee in Vienna. Try new foods — and drinks — when you're out seeing the world; you never know what kind of delicacy you may find. New dishes are an adventure of their own.

Have A Good Hike Followed By Some Good Conversation

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Being a seasoned adventurer means you’re going to meet and travel with a lot of cool people when you’ve got that need to discover in your bones. Your travels create stories and gives you something exciting to share when you're sitting down to talk about where you’ve gone and what you’ve seen.

Traverse Up A Mountain

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Something you’ve got to ask yourself when looking at photos of white mountains, and ice-capped peakes: How the hell do they do it? Certain travelers have a style that is the complete opposite of chill — a notion that’s particularly true when you see them scaling up a behemoth of a mountain. While we don’t think you should head up north and encounter Everest right off the bat, find a mountain near you and go for a safe hike/climb on a warm, sunny day.

See The Wonders Of The World And Then Find Your Own

Entrepreneur, explorer, and TV personality Lee Abbamonte is the youngest American to visit every country, which leads us to ask: What’s your excuse? Lee’s sense of adventure goes down to the bone, as proven by his various shots of well-known landmarks from around the world. Easter Island, the Great Pyramids, Big Ben, The Washington Monument… the world is out there for you to find your own “wonder” around you.

Use The Great Outdoors As Your Gym

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When you travel, you can also run. Be one of those travel junkies that uses the great outdoors as your personal gym, hiking through cycles of rain, sleet, hail and snow, all for the hell of it. All it takes is one trip to Yosemite or the Appalachian trail for a bit of run to help you feel fit and refreshed. Get outdoors, save money on a gym membership and use nature as your way to get into shape.

Get Lost

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There are many known travelers thatstraight up admit that they like getting lost. That’s one of the most vital parts of traveling — allowing the landscape to take hold of you and do with you what it likes. While those professional photos of dark caverns and mysterious landscapes may seem out of reach for you, it doesn’t hurt to try to live up to those incredible photographic standards on your own.

See The World In A Whole New Way

David Hoffmann’s been there. Truth be told, it’s hard to pinpoint exactly where he’s been at first glance at his page. Some of his shots are so out of the ordinary and foreign that you have to really read through the descriptions to find out what you’re looking at. His shots invoke elongated stares and makes you ask yourself out loud: "How did he get that?"

Take inspiration from him and look at landmarks on your adventures in new and unique angles to see things in a whole new light.

How To Stop Having a Boring Life

The very first line of this dude’s Instagram bio is “Stop Having a Boring Life.” It goes without saying that he certainly follows his own advice. Shots from the ancient sectors of Ireland juxtaposed with deserted island scenes in Nicaragua tell the story of a man who no longer leads a life that can be described as boring. It’s the photos of the beach at dusk combined with snow-covered mountains that proves he’s in it for the long-run.

Discover West America

What is West America? Easy. “West America is about that full life. About fun, practical jokes, wrestling your buds, traveling, camping, riding motorcycles, babes, swimming, making stuff, getting lost and finding new ways.” Their words, not ours… but all illustrated with countless photos of a bike that’s constantly breaking down all over America. This is about as DIY as you can get.